GALLUP, N.M. (KRQE) – A judge in the Eleventh Judicial District is retiring after nearly two decades on the bench. Judge Louis E. DePauli Jr. says now he plans to “explore the wilds of New Mexico and the Four Corners area, get his golf game into shape, and perhaps travel internationally a time or two.”
“My biggest overall accomplishment was keeping the court running in good order, doing my job efficiently and economically, and with purpose,” DePauli, a native of Gallup, said in a press release. “I tried to accomplish justice as best I could in my role as judge.”
DePauli isn’t the first in his family to serve as a judge in Gallup. Both his father and grandfather served as judges.
“I love Gallup because my family has been here for four generations,” DePauli said. “Many of my friends are still here where their families go back multiple generations. It’s a small town where I can still wave to people I know when I pass them on the street. We’re varied and culturally different and at the same time, we really get along well. It’s a great melting pot of a town.”
DePauli was appointed as a judge in 2006 by then-Governor Bill Richardson. DePauli also worked as an assistant district attorney and a private-practice lawyer during his legal career, according to the Administrative Office of the Courts.
